Florida COVID update: Here are county death tolls for South Florida, as state adds 1,605 cases

Florida reported 1,605 COVID-19 cases and no new deaths on Monday, according to Tuesday’s report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.

The Florida Department of Health will most likely add deaths to Monday’s total. The state has done this in the past when it has added cases and deaths to previous days during the pandemic.

In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,682,809 confirmed COVID cases and 61,147 deaths.

In the past seven days, on average, the state has added 43 deaths and 1,397 cases per day, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.

COVID deaths in South Florida and Manatee County

The CDC’s Community Profile Report released county-level death data for Florida’s 67 counties.

It is unclear when these newly reported deaths occurred. The Community Profile Report updates Florida’s county death tolls and rates about once every seven days, when or after the COVID-19 weekly situation report is published by the Florida Department of Health on Fridays.

As of Friday’s Community Profile Report, Florida had a death rate of 285 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the start of the pandemic. Two weeks ago, the state had a death rate of 281 deaths per 100,000 people.

Here’s where death rates and tolls stand in South Florida and Manatee County, according to the CDC.

▪ Miami-Dade County’s death toll sits at 9,121, an increase of 55 deaths from the CDC’s Thursday report. That’s a rate of 336 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.

▪ Broward County’s death toll sits at 4,895, an increase of 25 deaths from the CDC’s Thursday report. That’s a rate of 251 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.

▪ Palm Beach County’s death toll sits at 4,259, an increase of 20 deaths from the CDC’s Thursday report. That’s a rate of 285 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.

▪ Monroe County’s death toll still sits at 96, no increase from the CDC’s Thursday report. The county would be at a death rate of 129 deaths per 100,000 people if its population were that large.

▪ Manatee County’s death toll sits at 1,210, an increase of two from the CDC’s Thursday report. Manatee has a rate of 300 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.

FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES

About 13,091,601 eligible people in Florida — 61% of the state’s population — have completed the two-dose series of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines or have completed Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

VACCINATIONS IN SOUTH FLORIDA AND MANATEE COUNTY

Here’s how many people have been fully vaccinated in South Florida and Manatee County, according to the CDC.

▪ In Miami-Dade County, about 2,105,218 people, or 78% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.

▪ In Broward County, about 1,266,245 people are fully vaccinated, or 65% of the county’s population.

▪ In Palm Beach County, about 916,257 people are fully vaccinated, or 61% of the county’s population.

▪ In Monroe County, about 53,057 people are fully vaccinated, or 72% of the county’s population.

▪ In Manatee County, about 229,860 people are fully vaccinated, or 57% of the county’s population.

COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida

There were 1,382 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to a Tuesday report by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, which compiled data from 235 Florida hospitals. Hospitalized COVID patients increased by 31 from Monday’s report, when 257 hospitals submitted data.

COVID-19 patients take up 2.53% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 2.36% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals.

Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 277 people were in intensive care unit beds, an increase of 34. That represents about 4.46% of the state’s ICU hospital beds, compared to 4.33% the previous day.

Tuesday’s Miami-Dade County report did not include hospitalization information.

Broward County’s Tuesday report said there were 92 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of 25 from the previous day’s report.

This story was originally published November 23, 2021 at 2:16 PM.

Devoun Cetoute

Miami Herald

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Miami Herald Cops and Breaking News Reporter Devoun Cetoute covers a plethora of Florida topics, from breaking news to crime patterns. He was on the breaking news team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2022. He’s a graduate of the University of Florida, born and raised in Miami-Dade. Theme parks, movies and cars are on his mind in and out of the office.